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Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have arrested Ba’ana Bdiya, a “repentant Boko Haram fighter” over a bomb attack that led to the deaths of some soldiers. Alegedly, ‘Manci’, gave out details on the movement of the troops to terrorists on Read More …
Improvised explosive devices and ambushes continue to pose a major threat to soldiers fighting Boko Haram and ISWAP in Northern Nigeria. An exclusive report by SaharaReporters has revealed that three young personnel of the 152 Task Force Battalion, Banki town Read More …
At the height of terrorist attacks in Nigeria, Boko Haram and other insurgency groups increased the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Most of the IEDs deployed by those terrorist groups were made from Ammonium Nitrate and Carbamide, which are Read More …
The Rivers State Police Command yesterday confirmed the explosive attack at the premises of Wish 99.5fm/Atlantic Television Network in Port Harcourt. The media house was hit with explosive device by suspected hoodlums, Tuesday evening. Read more… Source: This Day
About 38 Local Government Areas in the North-East, comprising Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states are contaminated with Explosive Ordnances due to the activities of insurgents in the region, the Federal Government has said. It disclosed this in its latest report Read More …
At least four officers attached to the 25 task force brigade of operation Hadin Kai have been reportedly wounded after running into an improvised explosive device (IED) in Borno. The IED was allegedly planted by insurgents. Read more… Source: The Read More …
The police yesterday kicked-off the deployment of bomb sweepers, radiation detectors, frequency jammers and other modern security technologies in troubled regions to prevent criminals from using explosives and other devices to scuttle the general election. The distribution, being coordinated by Read More …
Three persons have been reported injured, following double explosions that rocked a rally of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the Rumu-Woji Play Ground, also known as Ojukwu Field, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Publicity Secretary of the APC, Rivers Read More …
The military has reportedly killed two wanted Boko Haram Commanders, Abu Ubaida and Mallam Yusuf Abba. They were neutralised together with about 40 of their foot soldiers at an abandoned warehouse in Kurebe, a popular community in Shiroro Local Government Read More …
The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested an Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) member over the blast near the Palace of Ohinoyi of Ebiraland in Okene, Kogi State. The Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) attack occurred on 29th Read More …
An explosion occurred Thursday in Kogi State minutes before President Muhammadu Buhari was to commission a project in the North-central state. Residents said the explosion, believed to be from a bomb, claimed the lives of at least four people in Read More …
A 14-year-old boy in Borno state has been reportedly killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) mistaken for scrap metal. According to Zagazola Makama, a publication focused on the Lake Chad region, the incident occurred in Banki town, Bama LGA Read More …
The Ebonyi State Police Command said it has recovered some Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) following the discovery of what it described as the biggest bomb factory in the South-East belonging to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The police Read More …
Four persons including one policeman have been killed in an attack that was repelled by the police in the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) along Port Harcourt Road in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The gunmen also Read More …
An airstrike by troops of the Air Task Force (ATF), Operation Hadin Kai, has neutralised another top commander of Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists’ group, Muhammed Malik. The intelligence-led aerial and ground coordinated operation launched by Read More …
Airstrikes conducted by fighter jets of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, have killed 24 terrorists of the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP. The operation, PRNigeria gathered, took place on Sunday, at Tumbun Hamma, one of the identified locations Read More …
A federal court in the United States has sentenced a Pennsylvania man, Mustafa Mousab Alowemer to 208 months (17 years and 3 months) for plotting with an international terrorist organisation, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) to bomb a Read More …
Residents in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, were on high alert and avoided some places on Monday, a day after the U.S. and U.K. issued terror alerts about possible attacks in the city. The Department of State Services, which is Nigeria’s Read More …
The Federal Government has disclosed that 755 civilians have been killed and 1,321 injured by the remnants of Explosive Ordnance (EO) in the Northeast in the last six years. The Federal Government also said the figure indicates that at least Read More …
wo people were killed in southeastern Niger on Sunday by a road bomb which exploded as they were passing with donkeys, local sources told AFP. “Two women were killed and a child was seriously wounded when an improvised explosive device Read More …